On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Andy Powell wrote:

> On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Dan Brickley wrote:
>
> > these are fine by me, so long as we batch (2) and (3) by date-stamped (or
> > otherwise uniq'd) snapshot; I'm really worried by the idea that we can
> > just keep pouring new stuff into a single namespace.
>
> Dan,
> I still don't get it!
>
> Please explain the scenario(s) under which new uniq'd versions of
> namespace URIs are used and, assuming that changes to the semantics of
> some of the names in the namespace are one cause of creating a new uniq'd
> namespace URI, what happens to those names that haven't changed.

I wasn't thinking of the DC-15 changing or being expanded, but other new
batches of metadata constructs, eg. new sub-properties, types etc. For
things that don't change, I'm happy sticking with their old names rather
than copying across and duplicating solely for the purpose of packaging.

> I.e., under what circumstances do you forsee us creating
>
> http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.2/

Over my dead body ;-)

Really, the main 15 are fine. When I said (2) and (3) above I was
explicitly exluding the URI for the "DC 15". Whatever else we come up
with and when we decide to publish new URIs remains to be seen.

Dan

> and what will happen to those names in the 1.1 namespace that haven't
> changed?
>
> Andy
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